[ 17/09/2010 - 02:48 PM ] Sources in the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Movement, mourned the martyr and confirmed to the PIC correspondent in the city that Shelbaya was shot at close range. Local sources in the refugee camp said that the martyr was killed while sleeping in his house.
PIC correspondent in the city added that nearly 15 members and local leaders from Hamas Movement were also rounded up at the hands of the invading IOF troops in the operation where they used tanks, infantry, and the special forces amidst intensive shooting of live bullets and sound bombs at homes of the Palestinians.
Hamas condemned the assassination of Shelbaya and accused the Fatah-dominated PA security forces in the West Bank of extending assistance to the IOF troops in carrying out the assassination, explaining that Shelbaya was under intensive surveillance from the PA intelligence.
The PIC correspondent quoted one of Hamas leaders in the city, who preferred not to be identified, as saying "We hold the Fatah security apparatuses fully responsible for participating in the killing of Shelabaya who was under concentrated surveillance from those apparatuses, and he was detained in Pa jails till just a couple of days ago".
He also vowed that Hamas won't let the crime pass unpunished, but confirmed that place and time of Hamas's retaliation to the crime will be specified by the leaders in the field only.
A state of extreme anger and disgruntlement is prevailing in the city as Palestinian citizens poured their anger on the Fatah forces that connived with the IOF troops and allowed them to enter the refugee camp and kill Shelbaya in cold blood.
Over the past three years, many Palestinian fighters, mostly from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, were assassinated or arrested by the IOF troops in full coordination with the Fatah militia in the West Bank.
[ 18/09/2010 - 08:17 AM ]
TULKAREM, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement held Fatah faction along with Israel fully responsible for the consequences of assassinating one of its armed wing's leaders Iyad Shelbaiya in Tulkarem, stressing that such a crime would not undermine its resistance activities against the occupation.
In a news conference on Friday, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri stated that Shelbaiya was kept under constant surveillance by Fatah militias and was kidnapped by them seven times, the latest was on 13 August, before releasing him a few days ago.
Spokesman Abu Zuhri criticized the condemnation remarks made by Fatah and its authority, saying they were only an attempt to cover its involvement in this crime.
The spokesman accused the international community of keeping silent on Israel's violations of human rights, especially the extrajudicial executions it carries out against the Palestinians, while raising its voice when one Israeli gets scratched.
He stressed that this crime is part of the price his Movement constantly pays as a result of its fixed political positions in the face of attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause.
For its part, the Islamic Jihad Movement strongly denounced the assassination of Shelbaiya and held the Palestinian Authority and its security militias fully responsible for all arrests and assassinations carried out by Israel against resistance fighters in the West Bank.
"Simultaneously with the launch of negotiation rounds between Oslo authority and the Zionist enemy, a joint security campaign was waged against the Palestinian people and their fighters that started with hot pursuits and arrests and ended with the Israeli occupation's crime of executing fighter Shelbaiya, one of Al-Qassam Brigades' leaders in the West Bank," Islamic Jihad said in a statement on Friday.
It emphasized that this "heinous crime" was committed under the cover of the Palestinian Authority's peace talks and security cooperation with the Israeli occupation state, pointing out that many resistance fighters were kidnapped or killed by Israeli troops only a few day after the PA's militias summoned or detained them.
Al-Ahrar Movement also condemned the crime and said the assassination of Shelbaiya a few days after releasing him from West Bank jails proved the serious security cooperation between Fatah and the occupation.
Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the popular resistance movement, for its part, called on all resistance factions to retaliate to the assassination of Shelbaiya.
Secretary-general of the Palestinian legislative council Mahmoud Al-Ramahi, for his part, condemned the PA's silence on the murder of Shelbaiya and demanded it to withdraw from its "shameful" talks with the Israeli occupation state.
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